أسوة

Arabic

Root
ء س و (ʔ s w)
5 terms

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔus.wa/

Noun

أُسْوَة • (ʔuswaf (plural أُسًى (ʔusan))

  1. (archaic) remedy, relief; consolation
  2. (archaic) complement
  3. a single action of imitation
  4. simile, model, exemplar, what serves comparison

Declension

Declension of noun أُسْوَة (ʔuswa)
singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
indefinite definite construct
informal أُسْوَة
ʔuswa
الْأُسْوَة
al-ʔuswa
أُسْوَة
ʔuswat
nominative أُسْوَةٌ
ʔuswatun
الْأُسْوَةُ
al-ʔuswatu
أُسْوَةُ
ʔuswatu
accusative أُسْوَةً
ʔuswatan
الْأُسْوَةَ
al-ʔuswata
أُسْوَةَ
ʔuswata
genitive أُسْوَةٍ
ʔuswatin
الْأُسْوَةِ
al-ʔuswati
أُسْوَةِ
ʔuswati
dual indefinite definite construct
informal أُسْوَتَيْن
ʔuswatayn
الْأُسْوَتَيْن
al-ʔuswatayn
أُسْوَتَيْ
ʔuswatay
nominative أُسْوَتَانِ
ʔuswatāni
الْأُسْوَتَانِ
al-ʔuswatāni
أُسْوَتَا
ʔuswatā
accusative أُسْوَتَيْنِ
ʔuswatayni
الْأُسْوَتَيْنِ
al-ʔuswatayni
أُسْوَتَيْ
ʔuswatay
genitive أُسْوَتَيْنِ
ʔuswatayni
الْأُسْوَتَيْنِ
al-ʔuswatayni
أُسْوَتَيْ
ʔuswatay
plural broken plural in ـًى (-an)
indefinite definite construct
informal أُسَى
ʔusā
الْأُسَى
al-ʔusā
أُسَى
ʔusā
nominative أُسًى
ʔusan
الْأُسَى
al-ʔusā
أُسَى
ʔusā
accusative أُسًى
ʔusan
الْأُسَى
al-ʔusā
أُسَى
ʔusā
genitive أُسًى
ʔusan
الْأُسَى
al-ʔusā
أُسَى
ʔusā

Descendants

  • Persian: اسوه (osve)
  • Malay: uswah

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسوة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 37
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أسوة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 34